Linux wants to know where are the American desktop users? On October 24th, 2007 I posted information on the Linux survey that was taking place here.But it appears that preliminary reports from  the Linux Foundation seem to indicate that American users are not reporting their Linux useage. According to the story over at DesktopLinux.com it states:

Linux users from around the world are filling out the Linux Foundation’s desktop survey. But what John Cherry, the foundation’s director of global Linux workgroups, wants to know is, “Where are the responses from the North America?”

About midway through the survey, there have been what Cherry calls “extraordinary numbers. With over 10,000 respondents in so far, the survey has been taken by 6,206 English speakers; 3,684 Russian speakers; 1,198 French speakers; but only 118 Spanish and 51 Japanese speakers. The curious thing about the English language users is that 63 percent of the English responses have come from Europe, with only 22.9 percent from North America.”

The LF, not to mention Desktop Linux from its own surveys, knows darn well that there are far more than 1,500 American, English-speaking Desktop Linux users. The Spanish and Japanese numbers are also low, but there the LF said the problem may simply be that the word hasn’t gotten out enough in Spain, Latin America and Japan. The San Francisco-based foundation is working on getting more publicity for the survey in those countries.

So what’s up America? Nobody using Linux? These surveys are taken to help improve the operating system so your input is important.

Complete story here.

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